Merijn van Wouden

Software developer / inventor of digital things profesionally, and non-digital things outside of work. Zaandam, NL.
I love life and work is a large portion of my life, therefore I choose work that I love and believe in. A meaningful life should be a neverending quest to acquire more wisdom. I am constantly developing; myself, my surroundings. I question everything; sometimes my ethical boundaries conflict with commercial interests or climate/social related consequences of work that I am offered, I always take this into account first. But when I am excited and believe in a project, I have an infinite supply of energy for it!

I really love UX puzzles, especially when building tools that other people use daily.

My strongest soft skills I would say are about ideation: brainstorms during concept stages, thinking outside the box. I'm quick to adapt to anything new. Taking ownership of the project I am working on.

Tools I LOVE SVELTE AND CONVEX!! I would name my children Svelte and Convex if that were allowed.
But usually my backends are Node-ish. Fluent in PHP but it's more a thing of the past.
Very familiar with React/Vue/etc.. but did I mention I love SVELTE?
I also build blockchain applications and smart contracts, but do not take on work for proof-of-work chains that consume massive amounts of energy. I like Hedera.

I strive to use mostly local LLMs;
and to work 1-2 hours per day without AI assistance to preserve brain health.

Languages Dutch and English daily. Russian fluent. German and French reading. Turkish, learning.

Email me at m [at] hacktis.ch.

What I can help with

Selected work

Technologies I work with
Frontend
Backend and data
Blockchain and smart contracts

I do not take on work for proof-of-work chains.

Integrations and commerce
Mobile and deployment
AI applications

Model APIs, agent workflows and prompt versioning. I prefer local models where they fit.

Earlier work

Much of my older work; PHP also comes up in current Shopware maintenance.

Timeline

  1. ⟶ now Morgen is Nu making a large catalogue easier to shop
  2. ⟶ now ThuiszorgInHolland connecting AFAS, recruitment and the care app
  3. ⟶ now Guidesty planning a trip together
  4. ⟶ now Kwantor turning participation agreements into software
  5. ⟶ now Taxi Haarlem Service a booking and dispatch system
  6. ⟶ UpLinked LinkedIn content automation
  7. ⟶ SUYE digital certificates for physical art
  8. Multihaarden a fireplace shop
  9. ⟶ WEYU NFT creator tool, launchpad & marketplace
  10. SPJ financial & corporate communication
  11. ⟶ Handlefy real life 'Dropbox'
  12. Naampie using Tinder UX to fi the best baby name
  13. ⟶ AllMusic intuitive music discovery
  14. Deukweg easy & fast car repairs
  15. ⟶ MijnOefening physiotherapist app
  16. ⟶ a corporate site built around a tile grid
  17. ⟶ Evenses all IT for booking office
  18. Salt a magazine site with a subscriber side
  19. ⟶ MyAdbooker choosing advertising screens on a map
  20. ⟶ Full stack web developer
  21. ⟶ University of Amsterdam Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence
  22. 🐣

Code

Commits last year 20262025202420232022202120202019

2,402 contributions · longest run 27 days

Languages

By bytes across 7 public repositories, 204 kB in all, forks and archived left out.

  • JavaScript 57%
  • Python 26%
  • Svelte 8%
  • HTML 3%
  • Shell 2%

and 2 more

Repositories

  • mailcow-status-tracker ★ 7 Track delivery status of outgoing Mailcow emails by checking the Postfix logs through the Mailcow API. JavaScript · pushed
  • next-zod-api ★ 6 Simplify Next.js App Router endpoints, with Zod schema validation TypeScript · pushed
  • media-tunnel ★ 5 Self-hosted on-the-fly image optimization and cropping on a NodeJS backend JavaScript · pushed
  • icloud-offload ★ 3 Backup media to a cutoff date to your machine and delete them from your iCloud to take back control over your storage use. Python · pushed
  • solwrap ★ 3 Inline solidity imports from node_modules (e.g. from @openzeppelin/contracts) JavaScript · pushed
  • trapcalculator ★ 2 A simple calculator to find the dimension table of stairs' slingers (was needed for personal use, it's in dutch) Svelte · pushed
  • boxolino ★ 1 Game by Simon (9 years old) and Claude JavaScript · pushed